Electronics Forum | Sun Apr 23 09:04:36 EDT 2006 | kanna
Does anyone have any experience with these ovens > ? We are looking at purchasing a used > one. Anything in particular I should look at > when inspecting it ? > > Any comments good or bad > appreciated..... > > Thnx, Sr. i have one problem he
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 20 05:30:23 EDT 2005 | Slaine
Ive a 5 zone BTU vip 90 thats about 12 years old, and just lately its been a pain, its needed justabout all the fans replacing, the belt has eaten away the drive sprockets (they were fine a month ago) and just lately the belt speed has started to va
Electronics Forum | Thu Aug 25 19:37:18 EDT 2005 | Dave
Hi Mark, Check out Heller's white paper link for a study done with a PCB in line with thick and thin aluminum plates to measure repeatability and delta T with loads of large mass materials. The result was less than 1 degree with their oven due to i
Electronics Forum | Sun Nov 12 21:18:31 EST 2006 | fastek
Kris- You obviously need to become more self-sufficient if you are struggling to keep your reflow oven up and running. Reflow ovens are too simple to repair to get freaked out over them. It's not always the vendor's fault when the customer doesn
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 06 22:04:31 EST 2016 | comatose
No, it isn't. Last year I paid mid fifties for a brand new 8 zone BTU. Air only, belt and rails, not a lot of bells and whistles. There isn't a ton to a reflow oven and the chinese ones have gotten pretty decent, which pushes the price down for eve
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 29 09:45:08 EDT 2004 | pioneertechnology
In 1995 we bought 4 Vitronics U520 reflow ovens with top heat only. We ran these ovens until 2003 for both curing and lead reflow with no problems. In 1998 we bought 1 U520 top and bottom heat and one U820 top and bottom heat and once again we had
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 15 19:01:26 EDT 2005 | russ
I beleive what they are doing now for the blower issue is giving a lifetime warranty on them but they still haven't upgraded to prevent the frequent failures. Personally I prefer a warranty that I don't need.
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 19 17:21:14 EDT 2005 | rick
They're full of crap and are simply trying to get you into a Paramax 150. Depending on your product you could probably get by with a VIP-98.
Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 19 11:43:16 EDT 2005 | dougs
Ken is right about the BTU VIP's, we have 2 both about 6 years old as well, i've been here 1 1/2 years and only replaced a 15V power supply on one of them, no other issues at all.
Electronics Forum | Sun Aug 31 05:38:13 EDT 2008 | yiannis
hello Are there users of TRS-14 REFLOW OVEN ? Some files of the software are corrupted and we cant use it. If anyone can help plz send a mail :yiannispd@yahoo.gr thnks :-)
